Ribbon-watch-bracelet fastening



FILED FEB. 23.1922- INVENTOR.

M ATTORNEY.

Patented Dec. 2%, i922.

" warren stares RUFUS KING, OF PLAINVILLE, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO BUGBEE 85 MILES COMPANY, OF NORTH ATTLEBORO, T/IASSACHUSETTS.

BIBIBON-WATCI-l-IBRACELET FASTENING.

Application filed February 23, 1922. Serial No. 538,489.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that 1, Burns KING, a citizen of the United States, residing at Plainville, in the county of Norfolk and State of 5 Massachusetts, have invented new and useful Improvements in Ribbon-Watch-Bracelet F astenings, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in ribbon watch bracelet fastenings and pertains more particularly to ribbon bracelets which are equipped with hooks at their ends that are secured to the usual loops or eyes carried by diametrically opposite points on the watch periphery.

The primary object of the invention is to provide watch engaging hooks which are formed so as to allow same to be easily and quickly attached to the ribbon without threading of the latter through the usual loops provided and to also allow the hooks to be easily and quickly disconnected from the ribbon and without ripping of the stitching employed in forming the loops in the ribbon.

The invention further aims to provide a hook fastening which is devoid of all moving parts, which is simple and economical and which allows the ribbon to be easily and quickly connected to and disconnected from the hook and when connected to be reliably held against all likely accidental disengagement.

Further and other objects will be later set forth and manifested in the course of the following description.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is a front elevation;

Figure 2 is a rear elevation;

Figure 3 is an enlarged detail plan View of one of hooks; and

Figure 4: is an end elevation of Figure 3.

In proceeding in accordance with the present invention, each hook member has a body 1 provided with a hook 2 and with a resilient guard 8. The body is longitudinally slotted at 4 and has a pair of alined arms 5 the inner sides of which define a side of the slot, the arms 5 being spaced at 6 to so admit the ribbon R in such space. The slot 4 forms a bar 7 located on one side of the arms 5, while the ends 8 of the guard 8 are located in Spaced relation to the opposite sides of the arms 5, the space 6 leading to opposite sides of the arms 5.

In applying the ribbon, a side edge thereof is placedin the space 6 and the ribbon then moved through such space, the side thereof 'just named being then crowded between the adjacent arm 5 and the body until the opposite side edge of the ribbon registers With the slot whereupon the said opposite side edge is moved through the slot and then moved in the opposite direction to engage between the opposite arm 5 and the body of the hook member. To disconnect the ribbon, a side edge thereof is moved toward the space 6 between the arms 5 and then through the latter, which causes the remainder of the ribbon to also pass through the space 6. Since the arms 5 are free on each side and since the ends 8 of the guard 3 are disposed beyond the space 6 between the arms 5, the ribbon is permitted freedom of the movement in positioning and removing same so that the latter operations can be easily and quickly performed.

The invention thus not only obviates the necessity of ripping the stitches S of the loop L, in case the hook member is to be removed, but also allows such loop to be sewed prior to applying the loop to the hook member. Similarly the loop M which secures the member N of the snap fastener to the complementary member of such fastener can be sewed prior to applying the loop to the hook member, and its removal can likewise be eifected without ripping the stitches S thereof. In all instances threading of the ribbon through the bodies of the hook members is also obviated. The slot 4 is of width to allow the aforementioned crowding of the ribbon, which is also freely permitted by the free space occurring opposite to the space 6 on the sides of the arms opposite to the sides adjacent slot t.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. In a wrist watch ribbon fastening, a member having a body formed with a slot, a hook overlying the body and secured thereto at one side of the slot, a pair of arms spaced apart at their inner ends and having one of their sides defining the inner wall of the slot, and a resilient guard having a nose underlying the free end of the hook and engaged therewith and having ends which extend transversely across the arms and are secured to the body at points spaced from the opposite sides of the arms.

2. In a wrist watch ribbon fastening, a member having a body formed with a pair of arms intermediate its sides which arms are spaced apart at their free ends and have free space on each of their opposite sides,

a hook carried by one side of the body and overlying the latter, and a resilient guard carried by the opposite side oi the body and member having a pair of confronting arms between its sides with free space on each of the opposite sides of each arm, the arms having free ends which are spaced apart, a

hook carried by one side of the body and to one side-0t the arms and eXtendi-nginwardly toward the arms,.and a guard of approximately U-shape carried by the opposite side of the .body and extending inwardly toward the hook and engaged therewith.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

RUFUS KING.

Witnessesi v WILLIAM SHELDON, Gnnrnonn VoLLnR'r 

